Mediagazer: Can hacks and hackers work together? A new ‘living experiment’ looks to find out (blogs.journalism.co.uk)

12:15 PM ET, October 8, 2010

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Nicholas Carlson / The Wire:

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
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Elizabeth Spiers / Forbes:

A Force Of Nature — Forbes Magazine dated October 25, 2010 — Arianna Huffington has created a media upstart valued at $100 million. What's it really worth? — It's a balmy night in September, and the second floor of the Upper East Side town house of former Viacom ( VIA - news …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Megan McCarthy: “The Cyborg of News, the Borg Queen of the Blogosphere” — In a profile of Mediagazer editor Megan McCarthy just out in the American Journalism Review, VentureBeat executive edtor and former boss Owen Thomas calls her “the cyborborg of news, the borg queen of the blogosphere.”

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Choire / The Awl:

LA Times Declares War on “Rumors Spread by Bloggers with Axes to Grind” — The LA Times send out a newsletter today recruiting advertisers to the newsletter of The Envelope, which is (or at least should be!) the intentionally gossipy, rumor-filled awards-show blogging fiesta at their paper.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Journalists as entrepreneurs? That's fine, but not if they have to sell advertising — It is time to talk of heresy. The former Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves has said once again that the editorial-advertising divide was the industry's biggest mistake.

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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

Marimow out as Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor — Bill Marimow will remain at the paper, according to the Inquirer's Twitter feed. Romenesko tipsters and others are reporting that deputy managing editor/operations Stan Wischnowski is interim executive editor. Nov. 8, 2006: Marimow named Inquirer editor.

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blogs.journalism.co.uk:

Can hacks and hackers work together? A new ‘living experiment’ looks to find out — Can hacks and hackers work together in the new online news world? This is the question posed by Open Journalism And The Open Web, a free online course being run by the online educational community site p2pu.org …

Holland Cotter / New York Times:

Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age — After steady assault from Twitter, Facebook and Blogger Nation, we have come to this: “The Last Newspaper.” Or so the title of the New Museum's big fall show seems to tell us. In reality the situation isn't quite that dire.

John Bracken / KnightBlog:

Knight News Challenge '11: Mobile, Authenticity, Sustainability and Community — I'm happy to be able to share with you the details of the fifth Knight News Challenge, which will launch October 25. — As a newcomer to Knight Foundation, I can state without hubris that the News Challenge …

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Linda Austin / BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center …:

Why is John Walcott leaving D.C. bureau chief job for biz-info company? — John Walcott. Image courtesy of McClatchy Newspapers. — John Walcott, who has led some of the most skeptical investigative reporting in Washington on first the Iraq War and more recently the financial crisis …

Ira Teinowitz / The Wrap:

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Isabel Macdonald / The Nation:

Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite — Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. — In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for “his fearless reporting and commentary,” …

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Newsonomics of sports avidity — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — When The Sporting News began publishing, the telephone was barely 10 years old.

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

WEFHamburg: Danish newspaper showcases the iPad app built on a shoestring budget — “Think of a number, quarter it, and you're still not there.” — This was Annemarie Kirk's answer when asked what her budget was for developing Danish newspaper Berlingske's first iPad app to be launched later this month …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Columbus Dispatch Signs On To News Corp. Digital Plans; UK Pubs Balking — A few more details are seeping out about News Corp.'s Project Alesia initiative to create new digital products for its own outlets and for other publishers. The Columbus Dispatch (circ: about 170,000) …

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